I don´t know if it´s entirely accurate but at he moment i´m using:
2 Velite
2 Principe
2 Hastati
1 Triarii
I´m curious what´s your Polybian legion set up??
I don´t know if it´s entirely accurate but at he moment i´m using:
2 Velite
2 Principe
2 Hastati
1 Triarii
I´m curious what´s your Polybian legion set up??
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Campaigns completed: Vanilla Seleucid, EB 1.2. Carthaginian, RSII Pergamon
currently it's:
1 Commander
1 Tribune
1 Pedites Extrordinarii
2 Hastati
3 Principes
2 Triarii
2 Allied Light Inf.
2 Allied Heavy Inf.
1 Assenci
1 Velites
2 Allied Ranged troups
2 Allied Cavalry (Equites Romani are AWFUL.)
In the standard manipular formation. Although, in difference to the usual, I put the allied peeps in the middle, so as to catch people out in a cannae-type thing.
Caught out a few people with that. Especially my mate. (I was in the other room, and all I could here was (WHAT THE $%&? WHERE DID THEY COME FROM? I'm SURROUNDED!. Hilarious.)
Last edited by Che Roriniho; 07-20-2008 at 21:57.
As per my guide, a consular army is composed of two legions and two alae.
A legion is roughly:
1 skirmisher (Velites or Accensi)
1 hastati
1 principes
1 triarii (half-sized)
An ala is:
1 skirmisher (peltastai, akontistai, iaosatae, etc)
1 light infantry (Bruttians, Lucanians, etc)
1 heavy infantry (Samnites, Neitos, etc)
1 cavalry (Ligurians, Campanians, Curepos, etc)
Add to two each of the above:
1 General
1 FM as equites and tribune
1 pedites extraordinarii/Samnite Heavy infantry
It began on seven hills - an EB 1.1 Romani AAR with historical house-rules (now ceased)
Heirs to Lysimachos - an EB 1.1 Epeiros-as-Pergamon AAR with semi-historical houserules (now ceased)
Philetairos' Gift - a second EB 1.1 Epeiros-as-Pergamon AAR
For a Polybian Full stack I use:
4 Velites
4 Hastati
4 Princepes
2 Triarii
1 Pedites Extraordinarii
1 Equites Extraordinarii
2 Equites
1 General
That's a full Consular Army. No offence to Quintus et al but as far as I can see halving the number of Triarii is just a waste of unit slots as they usually operated in a massed pike block anyway.
If you want a more ethnically diverse set up you halve the number of specifically Roman units (not the extraordinarii) and replace them with Greeks and Italics. I don't think it's generally appropriate to use Gauls or other Barbarians in a Consular Army unless you're in need of men, i.e. in Greece or Gaul with 4 turns until you get some new chaps from back home.
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I think that the tribunes actually don't get any benefits , since they are not in charge... once my tribune (who I used for 10 years as a tribune...) still had the "green" trait until the first battle he commanded
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Using an FM as both tribune and representing the equites (which were historically a smaller unit than the allied cavalry anyway) works very well.
It began on seven hills - an EB 1.1 Romani AAR with historical house-rules (now ceased)
Heirs to Lysimachos - an EB 1.1 Epeiros-as-Pergamon AAR with semi-historical houserules (now ceased)
Philetairos' Gift - a second EB 1.1 Epeiros-as-Pergamon AAR
My legions usually consist of 10 units.
1 General
1 Calvary
2 Hasati
2 Principes
1 Trarii
1 Missile units (usually allied)
2 Allied infantry
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